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...slalom and downhill), handsome Toni Sailer was the undisputed hero of the Winter Olympics. Thousands of his countrymen crossed the border to watch him schuss to victory, his well-known white cap topped with streamers, his bright white smile gleaming under dark goggles. His quick reactions to trail conditions underfoot were what set him apart from other top skiers. "He feels the snow through his skis," they said. "I have snow in my veins," said Toni...
Catford Street, London, is not Tobacco Road or Cannery Row, but Slum Alley, universal home of the urban poor. Its children are grimy urchins, and the world scuffs them underfoot like dirty snow. But a Catford Street child may still skip to a dream of beauty between the slabs of concrete. This is the story of Lovejoy Mason, a ten-year-old asphalt sparrow, and her dream. A co-selection of the Book- of-the-Month Club for December, An Episode of Sparrows may well prove the book of the year for those who are not ashamed to weep over...
...Heads Underfoot. Sculptor Giacometti fits comfortably into this cramped clutter. Lying among the spare furnishings-a black potbellied stove, rumpled cot and banged-up chair-are strange sculptured objects: 6-ft.-tall female caryatid forms whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking heads as tiny as a thumbnail, a slinking alley cat with body no thicker around than the thumb. None of them is finished, Giacometti truculently insists. But in the eyes of art critics, these curious forms are the best sculpture being done in France today...
...Senator Harry Byrd, who was not named by Mitchell. Said Byrd: "A delegate to the national convention owes his allegiance to his state . . . Mitchell's position is that a delegate must surrender his convictions as the representative of his party in the state if his convictions are trodden underfoot by a majority of the national convention. This, in spite of the fact that the convictions of those he used to illustrate his position were well known to the Democrats of their states before they were selected as delegates in 1952. His view of the right and obligation...
...brother, Allen Dulles, head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Between Dulles and Castillo Armas, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy (now envoy to Thailand) passes out greenbacks to eager Guatemalan soldiers. As presumably downtrodden workers load a banana boat, and the battered corpses of little children lie unnoticed underfoot, Archbishop Verolino, the papal nuncio, blesses the joyous scene...